Farewell 2010

Last picture of 2010!

Well guys, I couldn't leave the year with my last post being about Halloween.

Just didn't feel right. This year's end has been so full of 

new things, new blessings, new people and love. I'm not going to

apologize for my absence but only say that I hope to 

do a little bit better this next year with updating more. I love

having a blog but it most definitely comes second

when life is a bit crazy. I'm so thankful for the all of the good, 

the trials, and the learning that 2010 has brought our way. I look forward

to the new year and everything that will be coming up. 

May the L-rd bless you and keep you.

May the L-rd make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

May the L-rd lift up His countenance upon you, and give you Shalom peace.

Happy New Year! 2011! :)

Last little family picture. :)

Well..

I was going to start out this post by saying sorry again for my absence..

but then I decided that I need to stop doing that. If I am able to blog,

then I will and if I can't because I'm busy living my life, then I won't. Easy, simple. 

I'm not going to feel guilty whenever I think about this thing,

knowing I haven't updated in a while. Done. :)

Here are a bunch of random things that have been happening
as of late in a list because I don't feel like
using complete sentences.. hehe. :)

-busy with work(s)
-in September, my love and I celebrated 6 years together

-my sweet friends, Chelsea and Brandon, got married -- and I danced for hours

-remembered, partook in and celebrated a few High Holy Days

-got a perm.. yes, I really did
-became very afraid of the perm
-perm relaxed.. A LOT
-fell in love with the perm and became a little too obsessed
-friendsies visited and stayed with us :)
-moved from brewing sun tea to hot tea
-have been successfully shopping, cooking and eating vegan for the past month or more
-feelin' well, eatin' well
-my love is moving to a new position in his job in two weeks
-listening to Christmas music for the past week and a half (I can't help myself)
....
I think that's it. :)

Before I go, I wanted to share this video. I am a huuuge lover of music
and one of my favorite musicians is Feist and she just so
happens to be coming out with a documentary in the next week or so.
I'm pretty excited. Very excited. Are you?

Bulletproof weekend.

I didn't realize that I haven't blogged in two-ish weeks, that's a long time. Yeesh.

So here I am, blogging.. but ironically enough, I don't know really

know where to start. I've been pretty busy. School is back in session which is 

good and not so good. Good because we have new five year old chicken 

noodle babies that are cuter than you can imagine and they 

have rejuvenated me and given me a new purpose in my job and not

so good because (even though I love my job) I'd really like to be doing my own

thing at home. It's selfish but completely honest. Sorry. 

Last weekend was Chelsea's bachelorette party in Las Vegas. It was my first real

time going to that huge crazy city and I think it's totally right on for

me to say that my mind was fully blown there. Such a loud and crazy place 

and I really loved it. Not to mention the good company that I was with

made it all the better. I didn't know if I was going to mention this

but since the bride herself has openly come out with it

on Facebook.. I will tell you here. The first night, all of gals got dressed up and 

went out. We at sushi, we walked all over the place, we danced 

to our hearts' content, laughed until make up was running down our faces 

(mostly just my face) and walked back to our hotel. After we got

back, we thought it would be a good idea to dance some more to some

fun tunes in the hotel room. Chelsea and four other girls got

on the bed and were jumping and dancing away...

...the four girls landed..

..and petite Chelsea was launched off of the bed..

..hit the wall..

..hard, with her little noggin..

..and spent the night in the emergency room with a concussion.

The end!

Haha, just kidding.. that wasn't the end. Chelsea was such a 

trooper and I can gladly report that she 

has since recovered but let me tell you (!)... that was one crazy night

and one crazy weekend that I will never forget. I haven't

had that much nonstop, 3 day fun in a long time. 

Thank you girls. And in honor of Chelsea's little noggin and

big crazy concussion, I will leave you with thee

song that will forever have a special place in our hearts and minds..

..the song that we were dancing to BCF (before Chelsea fell).

Enjoy. :)

"This time babyy, I'll beeeeee BULLETPROOF!"

Hi guys.

You know the feeling you get when you've been away from blogging for so long
that it makes it harder to come back to writing again? Well that was me,
for close to two months now. Unacceptable. I'm sure that I have been long forgotten, but
I hope that you will take me back... whoever you are. :)

We have lived in our little pink house for a little over a month now and we are
in heaven. We love it so much more than I can say. We are
pretty settled in, still hanging pictures on the bare walls but things are
coming along. The picture above was taken over a month ago and since then,
we have gotten a big area rug and hung some pictures on the walls. I'll
have to update with new pictures soon. So much has happened
but all I can say is that we are so so happy with where we
are. If I could extend my arms and wrap them around this little house,
I would immediately. I feel so blessed by what G-d has
given us and I don't want to take it for granted, not even for a minute.

I have decided to compile a short list of what has been going on in the past couple
of months:
we moved (obviously)
dinners in the backyard
Mal and Jonathan stayed at our house for 3 whole days
Paul turned 29 :)
BBQ with great friends
countless nights spent out on the porch
Dad's birthday dinner here
Father's Day in Claremont
Cheese Cave opening (and many visits since then)
bocce ball in the backyard
enjoyed the air conditioner
summer school (bleh)
spent the day in Los Feliz, ate at Alcove
family visited
went to Vegas for the day
4th of July BBQ fun with friendsies
Claremont farmers market every Sunday morning
and finally found a home church where we regularly attend every Saturday morning (!!!)

And that about sums it up. :)

It's a beautiful Sunday, the farmers market was nice this morning and we
decided, instead of spending the rest of our day inside, we are going to go to the beach.
I hope that you are all having a great weekend. I'll be backkk.

I have not been a good mother to my blog child.

Has this been the longest lull in my blogging history or what? I think it's been days... weeks even? Yikes. Well geez, a lot is going on. I finally have pictures to post from our anniversary trip and pictures of food and recipes to put out there but for now I will start with just a short update. April and the start of May have been filled with work, school, Brother's 22nd birthday (gaijadgadfhi!!), hang outs, a tea party, concerts, a trillion loads of laundry, Mother's Day and.. oh yea.. we're moving! The latter is the most exciting for me. I cannot describe the feeling or say it enough. We aren't moving far, not far at all actually -- 6 or 7 blocks away to be exact. :) We will still be living in Lincoln Park Historic District but instead of living in a 1 bedroom duplex, we are going to be living in a 2 bedroom house (built in 1930) with a big backyard, a porch (!!), garage, ranunculus in the front and a big beautiful quiet street. I am going to do a separate post once we move in because I am just that excited, if you couldn't tell. We prayed diligently for our future home and G-d blessed us beyond what we could have imagined. We so don't deserve it.

So anyway, that's what has been keeping us busy and crazy these past few weeks. Our living room is full of boxes and I can say that I am definitely ready to be settled in.. but not for a couple more weeks. I vow to blog again very very soon with pictures and all.

Oh.. um p.s. The new house.. it's pink. Like powder pink. And before you make a face, I love it.

Guys..

I'm feeling anxious about my lack of blogging lately. You know when you've been away for a while, not for any particular reason but just because life is happening, and there's always this little thought in the back of your head reminding you.. "you're blog.. is ... waiting.."? Well I've been feeling that and have thought that I need to sit down and crank out a totally awesomistic (that's a made up word circa 2002) and tubular blog post filled with pictures and witty things to say but but but, the pressure is just too much. I have yet to upload pictures from our San Francisco trip because our computer is confused so I think I'm going to have to do it at my parents' house, which is so tedious. All that to say, I'm sorry for the delay (I feel funny even saying that, as if there are peoples' lives in complete turmoil due to my absence .. ha) and I will be doing something soon. I have pictures to upload and lots of recipes to post, but, all in due time. Happy Tuesday? :)

Quick update

I find her to be quite lovely.

I had thee busiest last 7 days, which is clear by my recent absence. I have no idea where the weekend went. It was wrapped up in the moving out of old furniture and the moving in of new, a sweet rainy wedding, a bridal shower and minimal amounts of sleep. I still haven't recovered. Oye. So for now I am back to my normal life. I cleaned the house, got caught up on some reading and made sure the house and dinner were ready by the time Paul opened the front door. Broccoli and tofu in a garlic sauce served with a heaping spoonful of mashed potatoes... all organic I should add. :) Yay for that. More updates to come.. hope you all had a nice weekend. Happy Monday evening. :)

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